Ankit Jain: IIT Roorkee (An Overview)

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IIT ROORKEE
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History

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (commonly
  known as IIT Roorkee or IITR), formerly the
  University of Roorkee (1948-2001) and the
  Thomason College of Civil Engineering
  (1853-1948), is a public university located in
  Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. Established in 1847
  in British India by the then lieutenant governor,
  Sir James Thomason, it was given university
  status in 1949 and was converted into an Indian
  Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, thus
  becoming the seventh IIT to be declared.

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Ranking

• Internationally, IIT Roorkee was ranked 401410
  in general category and 194 in Engineering and
  Technology in the QS World University Rankings of
  2011 and 65 in the QS Asian University Rankings
  of 2012. In India, among engineering colleges, it
  ranked 4 by India Today in 2014 and 6 by Outlook
  India in 2011. In the Mint government colleges
  survey of 2009 it ranked 5. Recently in the top
  universities list produced by Times Higher
  Education, IIT Roorkee has fallen in the category
  of top 351-400.

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Departments Centers

• IIT Roorkee is one of the biggest technical
  institutions in the country having the largest
  number of academic units. It has 21 academic
  departments covering engineering, applied
  sciences, humanities social sciences, and
  management programmes, 1 academic center, 3
  centers of excellence, 5 academic service centers
  and 3 supporting units.

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Library

• Mahatma Gandhi Central Library finds a unique
  place in the academic spectrum of the Institute.
  Started in 1848 with a few hundred donated books,
  its collection has grown to more than 3,50,000
  documents in all media. Providing information
  through e-resources is the main focus of the
  Library. It has around 90,000 sq ft of fully air
  conditioned space. It can accommodate more than
  500 readers at any point of time. The library
  building is Wi-Fi enabled and contains a total 75
  user terminals for dedicated readers. It also
  contains an 80-seater open reading room.

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Cognizance

• Cognizance is the annual technical
  festival (tech-fest) of the Indian Institute of
  Technology Roorkee (IIT-R). Established in 2003,
  it has celebrated its 12th edition in 2014. It is
  one of the largest technical festivals in Asia.
  The 12th edition consisted of an over 180 events
  and hosted 2,500 guest students, in addition to
  about 8,000 students from the hosting institution.

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• 2009 Think Energy, Go Green
• 2010 Technovating India
• 2011 For a better tomorrow
• 2012 Ideate. Initiate. Innovate
• 2013 Aim Inclusion
• 2014 Imagineering Change
• 2015 Photonizing I

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Academic collaboration

• Some of the major universities which have a
  Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with IIT
  Roorkee are National University of Singapore
  (NUS), Singapore Royal Institute of
  Technology(KTH), Stockholm Swiss Federal
  Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
  (EPFL) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
  Zurich, Switzerland (ETH) Technische Universität
  München (TUM), Germany Institut National des
  Télécommunications, Every, France University of
  Texas at Dallas, USA New Jersey Institute of
  Technology (NJIT) at Newark, USA University of
  Waterloo, Canada University of Western Ontario,
  Canada.

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Facilities Infrastructure

• Located on a lush 350-acre campus about 170 Kms.
  from Delhi, the Institute has adequate
  infrastructural facilities. Roorkees proximity
  to Delhi enables the Department to draw expert
  visiting faculty from the metropolis. On visiting
  the campus, one is impressed by the elegance of
  the main building in the Renaissance style of
  architecture, spacious lawns and sports grounds. 
  The campus environment is congenial for academics
  and offers excellent opportunities for extra
  curricular activities. The campus is
  aesthetically designed and consists of modern
  auditoriums, a well-stocked library, a 24-hour
  computer center, dinning halls and mess,
  canteens, banks, post- office and a railway
  reservation center.

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IT Infrastructure

• Over 50 networked nodes through TCP/IP based
  high speed LAN.
• 45 Mbps leased line, 5.2 VSAT line with
  internet connectivity in a distributed
  environment.
• All nodes connected through 10/100 Ethernet LAN
  SCO UNIX open server, which includes licenses for
  software (SCO Xvision 97, Sun JAVA, JDK, Netscape
  Enterprise Server etc.)
• Application Development Software (Visual Basic
  6.0, Power Builder 6.0, Visual C 5.0,
  Designer/Developer 2000 and Visual J).
• All Hostels are Wi-Fi enabled for internet and
  intranet connectivity. In addition Cyber Cafe
  equipped with 20 computers are functional in all
  hostels.
• Library Information Centre, E-Notice Board,
  online registration and online placement portals.

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Sporting Lookout

• Trekking
• Rafting
• Billiards
• Table Tennis
• Squash
• Basket Ball
• Lawn Tennis
• Gymnasium
• Himalayan Explorers Club
• Hobbies Club
• Boat Club
• Swimming Pool
• Sports Stadium

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Thank You